The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (38 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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Webster’s Reply to Hayne
by Healy.
William Wells Brown, fugitive slave, writer, and ardent abolitionist.
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America.
P. T. Barnum and Tom Thumb.
Pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
No American artist ever caused such a stir in Paris as Catlin, painter of the Plains Indians, who arrived with an enormous exhibition of his work and a troupe of Iowas, who performed their dances at the Tuileries Palace before King Louis-Philippe and his family, as portrayed in a painting by Karl Girardet.
George Catlin
by William Fisk.
Little Wolf
by George Catlin.
Napoleon III and Georges-Eugène Haussmann at the start of the remaking of Paris. Painting by Adolphe Yvon.
Empress Eugénie.
Dr. Thomas Evans, the popular American dentist who, at the fall of the Second Empire, arranged the daring escape of the empress to England.
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Paris in 1853 to escape the fanfare over her novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
felt at once the “dreamland” charm of the city, its people, its architecture and art. At the Louvre, Géricault’s vast, dramatic
The Raft of the Medusa
(upper right) seemed to “seize and control” her whole being.
